Jan 29, 2024 · The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS Hopper (DDG 70) successfully conducted two developmental flight tests of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB Threat Upgrade guided missile on May 25 and 26 off the west coast of Hawaii.

Mar 27, 2025 · It was an incredible experience aboard the USS Somerset (LPD 25) practicing procedures for recovering the Artemis II spacecraft and crew with the Nasa and Department of Defense teams! It was also awesome sharing the experience of Underway Recovery Test 12 with @astro_andred @astro_luca and Stan Love! Photo Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls and Joel Kowsky

Nov 28, 2024 · 0:00 USS John F. Kennedy 4:13 Flap Moved Into Mega Bay 2 4:27 Driving Down Highway 4 5:00 Turning Down the Port Connector 5:18 Tanks at the Port 5:38 USS John F. Kennedy 5:56 Back on Highway 4 6:10 The Production Site 6:51 The Launch Site 7:16 Flame Deflector 7:38 Deliveries 7:58 Pad B’s OLM 8:38 Aft Flap Delivered 8:58 Parking Garage 9:20 ...

Dec 9, 2016 · An open-loop rolling reentry (as used in Mercury) had to be used because of the computer failure... Even though they landed 43 nautical miles (80 km) short of the intended landing target, some ships had already started steaming to the touchdown point and a helicopter was able to see them land. The prime recovery ship was USS Wasp...

Oct 1, 2022 · TrevorMonty: "Intuitive Machines have developed a hopper. Will visit a lunar cave on their 2nd mission mid 2023. All going well by this time next year we'll know what they look like from end of pit." Sorry but no. That second mission is to the south pole and the hopper will visit a permanently shadowed region (PSR), a very small shallow one.

Mar 18, 2025 · There was also a good story about how the system was producing so much data that the ships could not use it effectively. At one point a group went out to the carrier USS Enterprise and they asked how the data was used. A sailor showed them the teletype in the corner, which received the ship location information from a satellite.

Oct 25, 2022 · The museum has several other helicopters that are painted like the recovery aircraft for the American space program, including a Piesecki HUP-25 Retriever of the type used to ferry John Glenn from the USS Noa to the carrier USS Randolph following his Friendship 7 orbital flight in 1962, and a UH-34 Seahorse of the type used for the Gemini and ...

Jan 9, 2025 · The Puli Lunar Water Snooper (PLWS), a NASA-awarded miniature neutron spectrometer developed by Puli Space, is mounted on Intuitive Machines’ Micro Nova Hopper, a propulsive drone that will deploy off their lunar lander and hop across the Moon’s surface.

Sep 17, 2024 · “Selection of USNC to provide a Co-60 based heat source to the JETSON LP mission is an important step forward, not just for the JETSON effort but for future commercialization of Stirling-based dynamic power conversion for a wide range of space applications that we believe could fit well within Intuitive Machines strategic roadmap,” said Dr. …

Jun 22, 2021 · In February 2008, a missile fired from the Aegis class cruiser USS Lake Erie, several hundred kilometers northwest of Hawaii, blasted high into the sky and a few minutes later destroyed a malfunctioning top-secret American satellite.